Assumption of adult Development at Creation--Its Reasonableness--The Position waived--Assumption of the Germ-Hypothesis--Double Cocoa-nut--Coral Tree--Tulip--Earth-pea--Mangrove--Medusa--Connexion of Germs with Parent--In Echinoderms--In Annelids--In Insects--Egg of Butterfly--Of Nut Weevil--Of Bots--Of Ichneumon--Of Pill Chafer--Of Gall-fly--Of Lace-fly--Of Spider--Of Gipsy Moth--Of Coccus--Of Saw-fly--Of Cockroach--Of Dirt-dauber--Metamorphosis of Star-fish--Eggs attached to Brachionus--Viviparous Progeny of Rotifer--Of Asplanchna--Of Daphnia--Egg-purse of Shark--Economy of Surinam Toad--Egg of Fowl--Foetus of Kangaroo--Umbilicus 292-334 XII. THE CONCLUSION. Uniformity of Results--Prochronism of Organic Nature--Phenomena inadequate to settle Chronology--Historic Testimony alone oracular--Familiar Illustration--Objections met--Analogy between an Organism and a World--Illustration from a Tree--Analogy between the Life of a Species and that of an Individual--History Divinely Projected--Grand Plan of Nature--Diachronic Existence not necessary--Deceptive Phenomena inseparable from Created Organisms--Illustrations abundant--Hypothesis of the Life-history of the Globe--Supposition of 1857 being the Era of Creation--What its State?--Minuteness and Verity of Proofs of Life present no Difficulty--Coprolites--Faecal Residua in newly-created Animals--_Cyclical_ not _Organic_ Condition the Test of Prochronism--Illustrations from the inorganic World--Rivers--Ocean Currents--Celestial Bodies--Velocity of Light--Records of Entities actually passed--"No Tree has Leaves"--Plates of Testudinaria--Leaf-scars of Palm--Column of Nerita--Spines of Murex--Madreporic Plate of Cribella--Hilum of Seed--Navel of Mammal--Argument of "Great and Small"--Old Hypothesis of _Lusus Naturae_--Demonstration of a Law--Effect of this Principle on the Study of Geology--Summing up 335-372 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE